A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . rts metthem with joyful acclamations and whole hearted welcome. Con-spicuous among the many were the White Escort, organized byMrs. Tsabelle Alexander. Todaj% every camp of Spanish War vet-erans has its Womans Auxiliary. On each successive DecorationDay, the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic are supportedby the Sons of Veterans and the Spanish War Veterans, with the • Cleveland, Aiiprnst, 1918. I know a native-born slacker. who, two yearsago, vociferously proclaimed tliat women should not be
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . rts metthem with joyful acclamations and whole hearted welcome. Con-spicuous among the many were the White Escort, organized byMrs. Tsabelle Alexander. Todaj% every camp of Spanish War vet-erans has its Womans Auxiliary. On each successive DecorationDay, the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic are supportedby the Sons of Veterans and the Spanish War Veterans, with the • Cleveland, Aiiprnst, 1918. I know a native-born slacker. who, two yearsago, vociferously proclaimed tliat women should not be allowed to vote becausethev could not so to war and fight!—E. M. A. 316 CLEVELAND AND ITS EXVIRONS [Chap. XX Wliite Escort still doiiig duty in the comiuemorative exercises ofthat sacred anniversary. Mayors McKisson and Farley Mayor McKisson was given a second ofScial tenn and, with thesupport of the city council and the board of control, kept up for better stieet-car service, began the work of straighten-ing the channel of the river, and put forth heroic measures for the. Flag Presentation to Volunteers for Cuba reclamation of the lake front; he actually opened to the watersedge a street that had long been closed and occupied by the railwaycompanies, and between two days, placed thereon lamp-posts andother symbols of municipal control; he built a bridge over the rail-way tracks, and began the making of land along the shore just westof East Ninth Street. In short, Mayor McKisson wasnt 1899, he was succeeded in office by John H. Farley, HonestJdlui he was called by many with nobody to deny. Mr. Farley hadbeen mavor in the early Eighties. Real Queen City of tite Lower Lakes The thirteenth census of the United States brought great comfortto the Heart of the Western Reserve. The following table of popu-lation gives adequate explanation: 1900-01] GRAND OF TllH HKPrBLIC 317 1890 1900 Detroit 20r),876 285,70-1 Buftalo 2.)r),()64 352,387 Ciiuiiiiiati 2
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